A Certain Lack of Progress

The Hallowe'en decorations in the neighborhood are very random this year. Someone a couple of streets over has had theirs up and lit for three weeks already. Neighbor Dan across the street has his all laid out on his lawn but nothing is inflated or lit. Apparently, they've been away for an extended weekend as the grass around the decorations is getting a bit deep. Meanwhile, we are of the opinion the grass under the decorations is probably dead or dying. Add in three days of rain and (especially) wind from an unnamed tropical depression moving in from the south. Should make for interesting landscaping come All Saints' Day.

Our decorations are not up yet at all. Mostly that's due to the lawn mower dying a couple of weeks ago and a delay, first in deciding whether to repair or replace it, then in having it repaired (since the repairer is a relative of Neighbor Dan's and Neighbor Dan was originally going to take it to the repairer but has been away (see above) and no other arrangements for either pick-up or delivery were made). The lawn mower is finally at the repairer but our grass is now as deep as Neighbor Dan's and in many places has gone to seed.

There will be no inflatable black cats, ghosts, pumpkins or life-size fully-lit hearses-with-coffins-inside-containing-moving-skeletons-and-motion-sensitive-sound-effects until the grass is cut.